Employees at Tyson Foods Pork Processing plant in Perry, Iowa have a friend in Reverend Eras mo Velez. Velez, a Presbyterian minister, is employed by Tyson to provide pastoral care, counseling, and be a good listener to all 1,100 Tyson employees, regardless of religious affiliation. Velez is among a rising number of “Workplace Chaplains” at businesses ranging from a Coca-Cola bottling plant to a Cadillac dealership. Tyson employs chaplains in seven Iowa plants and eighty-one facilities nationally.